Freedom House, a global organisation, leveraging the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1948, to analyse world’s freedom, has released its 2024 edition covering developments in 195 countries and 15 territories from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
Freedom House also known as the Freedom in the World, operates from the assumption that freedom for all people is best achieved in
liberal democratic societies.
Freedom in the World assesses the
real-world rights and freedoms enjoyed by individuals, rather
than governments or government performance per se.
Freedom House selected countries for assessment in Freedom in the
World based on the following criteria: whether the area is
governed separately from the rest of the relevant country or
countries, either de jure or de facto; whether conditions on the
ground for political rights and civil liberties are significantly
different from those in the rest of the relevant country or
countries, meaning a separate assessment is likely to yield
different ratings; whether the territory is the subject of
enduring popular or diplomatic pressure for autonomy,
independence, or incorporation into another country; whether
the territory’s boundaries are sufficiently stable to allow an
assessment of conditions for the year under review, and
whether they can be expected to remain stable in future years
so that year-on-year comparisons are possible; and whether the
territory is large and/or politically significant.
Freedom House assessment is based on the scale of 0 (least free) to 100 (most free) countries. The analysts score countries and
territories based on the conditions and events within their
borders during the coverage period. The analysts’ proposed
scores are discussed and defended at a series of review
meetings, organized by region and attended by Freedom House
staff and a panel of expert advisers.
Only few countries were marked free from human rights abuse, including Estonia, Argentina. Nigeria gets ranked 44, a score for partly free country in political rights and global freedom of countries index. The 44 score was based on the merging of civil liberties score which is 24 and political rights which is 20.
Also, for internet freedom, Nigeria still gets 59, a score for partly free country, with roughly 20 human rights abuses, documented.
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